Congratulations to @pascalepetit.bsky.social winner of this year’s Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Night Canoe on Lake Sandoval’ keats-shelley.org/prizes/keats...
#keats #poetry #shelley #KSMA
Class action against whole farmyard?
Can you sue? Seriously, take care and maybe see if Salud can do a retinal scan just in case? M
Year of the Crayfish
After that, they started eating everythingin the name of God or rights or self-determinationor the sanctity of their eggs.They repeated the story on TV news with a mapcharting the key waterways and obstructions.You could see the concrete rimed on their lips,and fragments of…
Perfect…matched with ears which appear to be borrowed from someone else.
Cheers, Paul!
Great news, Paul. Congratulations.
Thank you, Paul. I hope you like the poem.
Many thanks, Roger.
Many thanks, Jude.
Many thanks to @poetrysociety.org.uk for running this amazing competition for nearly five decades.
Final Day of Spring Journal
In the Gulf. Plastic bags and sprinklers.
Day 13 of Spring Journal in the Gulf. Kingfishers and databanks.
Day 12 of Spring Journal in the Gulf. Flame trees and fiestas.
Day 11 of Spring Journal in the Gulf. Weak tea and speeches.
Day 10 of Spring Journal in the Gulf. Orations and ovations.
Day 9 of Spring Journal in the Gulf. Sky experts and Follywood.
Day 8 of Spring Journal. Caravanserai and mothers’ soap.
Day 7 of Spring Journal. Useless bees and The Clash.
Day 6. Spring Journal from the Gulf conflict. The naming of winds.
Day 5 of Spring Journal in the Gulf. Red onions and ‘Go Bags’
Day 4 of Spring Journal from The Gulf: Dignity and curtains.
Thank you, James. Really appreciate the support and looking forward to coffee in a quiet square in The Matarraña.
Day 3 of Spring Journal from Dubai. Contrails and leafblowers.
Day 2: the first alerts and Dido Queen of Carthage.
Mark Fiddes continues his eyewitness account of war coming to the Middle East @fiddes.bsky.social #war #trump #iran #dubai #journal #poetry #witness
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Starting today, Spring Journal by Mark Fiddes. A personal view from Dubai at recent events. #dubai #Iran #USA #trump #poetry
Join us at the Poetic Heart today ‘Connecting Humanity’ with poets in 10 different languages - from Uzbek and Japanese to Hindi, Arabic and Slovakian, even English.
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Poster announcing the sixth anniversary of online poetry journal iamb, and showing the faces of 18 poets who featured in its birthday celebration on Zoom on the evening of January 31st 2026.
Six years ago, a new online poetry journal launched against an inauspicious backdrop of a pandemic and Britain's exit from the EU.
@iamb.uk has since sailed many waves. Its 25th will appear this March. Last night, these 18 poets celebrated the journal's first six years. And it was bloody brilliant!
As the blood runs down his Playboy face
Traffic gridlocks on the BR-116 into São Paulo and a burger box flies out of a passenger window. Two wood pigeons cool in the concrete shade of a brutalist carpark. An Italian waiter in Soho writes his phone number on a bill, flourishing the crossbar on his…